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FOLDING BUGGY TOP. No. 388,061. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

Elven orf UNITED STATES WILLIAM G. MILLER, OF BOONVILLE,

PATENT OEEieE.

MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VILBUR T. JOHNSON AND WILLIAM MORRIS JOHNSON, OF SAME PLACE,

FOLDING BUGGYBTOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,061, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed April 27, 1888. Serial No. 272.049.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM G. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boonville, in the county of Cooper and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Buggy-Tops, of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and 1o use the same, reference being had to the aecompanying drawings, forming part of this specifleation.

My invention relates more particularly to canopy-top buggies; and it has for its object to secure the top to the buggy, so that it can be folded down back of the body of the bugg in an inclined position within the space between the hind wheels.

Theinvention consists ofa canopy-top bugg 2o having two or more series of rods hinged to the top and to the body thereof, one of which rods is jointed, so that the top may be dropped back of the buggy within small compass. Other forms of foldingcanopy buggy/tops have been devised in which the top is folded back of the seat and projects therefrom at right angles. 4In such a eonstruetion,when the topK is folded back, it must necessarily project a great distance beyond the back wheels. In 3o my arrangement the top is dropped back in an inclined position within the space between the buggy-wheels, and does not project any farther back than the periphery of said wheels. I will now describe my invention in detail by reference to the drawings accompanying and making a part of this specification. i

Figure I is a side elevation of the body of a buggy with a canopy attached thereto in accordance with inyinvention. Fig. II is aback 4o elevation thereof; and Fig. III is a side elevation, the same as Fig. I, but showing the top folded back.

The same figures of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

1 is the body of the buggy, and 2 are rails, which are fastened to each side of the seat.

3 3 are uprights, which are hinged to the rails 2 and to the top et at each side thereof. The uprights 3 3 are hinged to the forward 5o part ofthe rails 2.

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5 5 are braces that are hinged to the rails2 at the back of the seat. These braces are jointed at the point 6, and are pivoted to the top 4L in front ofthe standards 3, so that when the top is up in the position shown in Fig. I and is supported by the standards 3 the rods 5 act as braces therefor.

7 7 are preferably two bow-shaped pieces, joined by a neck-piece, S, which are hinged to the back edge of the top, and also to the back 6o of the buggy-seat. This acts as alateral brace for the top and prevents the same from playing from side to side. The bow-shaped pieces 7 may be hinged to the back of the buggy in any way. 6 5

It will be observed that the arrangement described affords ample space for persons to get in and out of the buggy-in fact, offers much less obstruction than the ordinary folding buggy-top. Fig. III shows the position 7o of the parts when the top is dropped backward. By means of the jointed braces, and the braces 7 being hinged to the back part of the top, said top will be drawn to an inclined position when the top is folded backward. So, also, the uprights 3 being hinged at the front of the seat, the top will be thrown but a short distance backward, so that the top and all the parts thereof will, when folded backward, occupy but little space. The top can 8o be made in any shape.

It will be noted in my invention that the top drops back without any folding together of the parts.

Various changes can be madein lheeonstruc- 8 5 tion set forth without departing from the spirit of my invention. I do not wish, therefore, to confine myself to the exact devices described.

Having now fully set forth my invention, what I desire to claim, and secure by Letters 9o Patent of the United States, as my invention 1sl. A folding buggytop consisting of uprights hinged substantially at the middle of the top and to the body of the buggy at the front part of the seat, jointed braces hinged to the top in front of said uprights and to the buggy back of said uprights, and one or more rods hinged to the back of the top and to the back of the buggy-seat. roo

A folding buggy-top consisting of up- I standards and to the buggy back of said standrig'hts hinged substantially at the midde of ards, and the lateral braces 7, hinged to the the top and to the body of the buggy at the back of the buggy-top and to the back of the 15 front part of the seat, jointed braces hinged seat. i i

5 to the top in front of said uprights and to the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my buggy beek of seid uprights, and a lateral I hand and afixed my seaLthis 23d dey of April, bracing pivoted te said top and bugg 1888, inthe presence of the two subscribing 3. TheV combination, as hereinbefore set rwitnesses. forth, of ithe buggy-top 4, the standards 3, f WILLIAM G. MILLER. [L s] 1o hinged near the middle thereof and pivoted Witnesses: Y

at or near the front part of the seat, the jointed EDWIN SHACKLEFORD, braces 5, hinged VYto the topv infront of sad GEO. E. TUTT. 

